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The Past And Present Of The Cowherd And Weaver Story:Di Scourse Reconstruct Ion And Memory Changes In Folk Legend

Posted on:2020-03-15Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2405330575965381Subject:Journalism and Communication
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China is a country with a long history and culture.The accumulation of culture is not only condensed in literary works such as poetry and poetry,but also in popular folklore.As a carrier of cultural memory,folklore is composed of historical events,historical figures and stories related to local customs.It is the crystallization of the wisdom of the working people for thousands of years.These folklore are not only numerous,rich in content,but also full of folk imagination and wisdom,and are an indispensable part of folk culture."The change of the literature into the world,the rise and fall of the series is the time series",the rise and fall of the ideological culture and the change of the social background and the background of the times will have a very important relationship.The rise and fall of literature is closely related to the development of the times.As an important part of folk culture,folklore is naturally influenced by the background of social change and development.Therefore,in the process of communication,folklore is not static,but it is developing in the process of continuous discourse reconstruction.The story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl,the head of the four folklore,is one of the typical cases.In the comparison between the past and the present of the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl,it can be found that in the historical years of more than two thousand years,the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl has been significantly different in circulation.At the same time,the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl also reversed the public's perception and memory of other traditional cultures.Continue to think along this line of thought,from the origin to the stereotype and then to the rewriting of different discourse systems,how are the themes and discourses of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl constantly reconstructed?In what ways did the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl reinforce the cultural memory of the people in the inheritance and evolution of the story?How have these memories changed?Are there any social changes behind these discourses and memory changes that are in need of cultural memory transformation?Based on the case of the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl,this paper uses the theory of cultural memory to analyze the discourse reconstruction in the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl,and explores the construction and reshaping of the cultural memory in the evolution of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl story,in an attempt to reflect the social change to the tradition of folklore.The impact of cultural development.The first chapter is the introduction part of the thesis,which mainly expounds the origin of the research,the purpose and significance of the research,as well as the related research summary,research methods and ideas.In the second chapter of the thesis,after studying the relevant texts of the ancient Cowherd and Weaver Girl story,the author combs the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl from the germination of the pre-Qin period,the embryonic form of the Han Dynasty to the differentiation of the Wei,Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties,and the inheritance of the Tang and Song Dynasties.And the evolution of the complete folklore of the stereotypes of the Ming and Qing Dynasties.Based on the changes of the plot and text form of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl in different periods,the evolution of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl from the astrology to the folklore is reproduced,the dynamic changes of the utterances in the multicultural context are sketched,and the story of the folklore,the mainstream discourse and the religious discourse is analyzed.Join forces to build.The third chapter of the thesis,along with the idea of the second chapter,continues to sort out the inheritance and deconstruction of the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl in different eras and different discourse systems since the Republic of China.Influenced by the trend of the times,folk dramas and newspaper supplements in the Republic of China rewrote the content and theme of the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl,expressing the demands of the times.The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl became the ordinary people in the real life who struggled for life and pursued freedom and love.The founding of New China,how to use folk literature and art to promote new ideology is a problem facing the new political power.Political discourse has gradually become the dominant factor in literary and artistic creation.The drama reform in the early years of the founding of the People's Republic of China and the subsequent collection of textbooks have clearly defined the anti-feudal story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl,theme.In the context of rapid economic development since the new century,the business discourse of easy entertainment has gradually dominated,and the rewriting of the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl by film and television works and advertisements has also shown a tendency to entertain and commercialize.The fourth chapter of the thesis,from the microscopic point of view,depicts the construction and re-construction of the cultural memory in the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl in the four dimensions of folk belief,labor production,Tanabata festival and national memory,in order to explore the public's recognition and acceptance of the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl..The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl are both the stars in the sky and the gods enshrined in the human world;they not only reflect the production methods of the ancient male peasants and women,but also the songs of the industrious spirit since ancient times.They also describe the Tanabata from the taboo color,the folk custom to the commercialization.As a representative of folklore,the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl have developed under the influence of the folk power and become a classic model of love.They also have a modern construction as an intangible cultural heritage.The cultural memory of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl in these dimensions has jointly promoted the folk and The mainstream accepts and spreads the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl.With the development of the times,from the original imagination of the stars,the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl is influenced by many factors such as political power,business discourse,social culture,etc.,from the folk to the mainstream,from the sacred to the daily,from the single to the plural,from the tradition to The modern rheological process is deeply rooted in the soil of Chinese folk culture and has become an extraordinary historical heritage and cultural memory of our nation.
Keywords/Search Tags:Cowherd and Weaver Girl, Folklore, Discourse Reconstruction, Memory Construction
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